[Chimera-users] MD analysis : get clusters

[Benjamin SCHWARZ]

Thanks Elaine,

    According to the paper the clustering is performed with average linkage, with some tricky method to determine the number of clusters.


A few suggestions for the enhancement of the clustering functionality in Chimera :
  - Allow the user to save the cluster information. For instance by saving clustered frames in separate files, or by saving the index of frames accompanied of their cluster index in a coma separated file.
  - Since the clustering scheme is a linkage, it could be good to show the dendogram and let the user play with it to determine its own cutof. The most expensive part being the computation of the pairwise distance matrix, once it is done, it might be possible to let the user interactively choose a cutof distance, or a number of clusters he desires and see what happens.

    --Ben

> Hi Ben,
> I can answer parts of the question. The clustering is a reimplementation of what is described in this paper:
> An automated approach for clustering an ensemble of NMR-derived protein structures into conformationally related subfamilies. Kelley LA, Gardner SP, Sutcliffe MJ. Protein Eng. 1996 Nov;9(11):1063-5.
> <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8961360>
> 
> This reference is given in the Ensemble Cluster docs:
> <http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/ensemblecluster/ensemblecluster.html>
> (and the MD Movie clustering docs link to this page; from MD Movie tool, click Help button and go to the clustering section of the resulting page)
> 
> Clustering is not available as a Chimera command.
> 
> Chimera capabilities can be accessed with python scripts, but I will have to leave any details on that, as well as how to save results (other than saving your Chimera session), for the others to provide.
> 
> I hope this helps,
> Elaine
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> Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                       
> UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab
> Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
> University of California, San Francisco
> 
> On Nov 2, 2012, at 7:46 AM, Benjamin SCHWARZ wrote:
> 
>> Hi list,
>> 
>>  I clustered a bunch of structures using the MD clustering tool, I am very happy with the result but I can't find how to download/save the result. 
>> 
>> Is there a way for instance to copy-paste the columns indicating the number of models as well as the index of the representative for each cluster; alternatively, is possible to sort out frames by clusters ?
>> 
>> If there are command shortcuts to manipulate the clustering, I'd be happy to get them, or to get a link to it in the manual. Chimera is really a great tool, but the learning curve appears really steep ;)
>> 
>> Ultimately, I wonder about the type of clustering used here. I suspect a complete linkage but I couldn't find the confirmation in the manual. Any info on that ?
>> 
>>   Thanks a lot for your extremely good work, and the fast answers on this mailing list
>> 
>>     --Ben
>> 
> 

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